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This looks awful. Why would want to do a polar plot for a time series?

Just so you can rotate it with your finger to go back in Time?

This doesn't look awful and by a very large margin. Unconventional - maybe, awful - heck, no. This is as easy to interpret as linear version.

I find it a lot harder to interpret.

You can't really make out the rate of change if it's not linear.